Woodstock Primary Academy

Woodstock Primary Academy is currently rated as requiring improvement overall, which reflects challenges in several key areas such as the quality of education, leadership, and early years provision. However, the school's culture is described as calm and safe, promoting positive behaviors among pupils. Students appreciate being part of the school community, which has recently shown improvements in attendance and personal development initiatives, such as after-school clubs. Despite some positive notes, there are ongoing issues with consistency in teaching, particularly regarding the writing curriculum and support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

Strengths

• Pupils enjoy a calm and safe school environment.
• The personal development of pupils is a priority.
• Early reading program has had a rapid impact.
• Pupils participate in a variety of extracurricular activities.
• Positive behavior is central to the school's culture.

Areas for Improvement

• The curriculum for writing is disjointed and not coherent.
• Inconsistent implementation of systems to support pupils with SEND.
• Assessment approaches are not uniformly applied across the curriculum.
• Basic communication and language development in early years are lacking.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Woodstock Primary Academy attended 92.5% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 22.5% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 3.3% of pupils at Woodstock Primary Academy were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Woodstock Primary Academy had 18.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 11.6% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 25.0% of pupils at Woodstock Primary Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 0.6% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 Woodstock Primary Academy received £7,613 and spent £8,620 for each of its 355 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £463,000 (£1,304 per pupil).

Across all 5 schools of Learning Without Limits Academy Trust, income was £9,074 and spending £9,110 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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Woodstock Primary Academy is part of Learning Without Limits Academy Trust, which runs 5 schools. The nearest others:

• Babington Academy Leicester
• Heatherbrook Primary Academy Leicester
• Lancaster Academy Leicester
• South Wigston High School Wigston

What is Woodstock Primary Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Woodstock Primary Academy is Requires Improvement, from an inspection in November 2024.

When was Woodstock Primary Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

Woodstock Primary Academy was last inspected in November 2024.

How many pupils does Woodstock Primary Academy have?

Woodstock Primary Academy has 328 pupils on roll.

What age range does Woodstock Primary Academy cover?

Woodstock Primary Academy for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Woodstock Primary Academy's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 52% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Woodstock Primary Academy?

Woodstock Primary Academy is at Hattern Avenue, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE4 2GZ.